Re: our MB friend 'Turbo/Chaos' just broke his collarbone
D@mn man. A helmet, even a bike helmet rather than a DOT helmet could save your melon some day. Don't end up being a drooling veggie that your family has to take care of for life. When I was in college a professor had a guy and his wife come in to class (for an education course for teaching special ed someday) to talk about his traumatic brain injury. He had been a professor at my college, bought a nice house on the main street in town and was out riding his road bike one day when a drunk college student hit him. He was NOT wearing a helmet. Endo crasho he lands on his head. That was 5 years previous to my class.
He came in wheeled by his wife in a wheel chair. He's had a 6 figure income partially paid for by the paper companies. His wife told us the story while he occasionally mumbled some words. His wife started to cry in front of us, a groups of 30 strangers, when she told us that work had ceased on the house because they could no longer afford it, he was on disability and that barely covered the bills. Taking care of him was a full time job but she was counting the days when she could go back to work. Still she talked about the hope that someday he would walk again; but that she was aware that he would never be able to teach again, he couldn't think the way he used to. After all this he started to tell us in halting mumbling speech that the worst part about the whole thing was that he could remember the way that he was, and that it was frustrating to not be able to wrap his mind around a scientific concept the way he used to.
HIs wife went on to tell us about the personality changes, angry outbursts and other assorted issues. She also talked about how when he first came home she had to change his diapers.
Dude don't be that guy, a burden to your family for life. Wear a helmet.
